MLA Citation Generator (9th Edition)

MLA style is the citation format of literature, languages and many humanities courses. The 9th edition builds every Works Cited entry from the same "core elements" in a fixed order, which makes it flexible but easy to get wrong. Enter the details of your source and this generator puts them in the right order with the right punctuation. It returns the Works Cited entry, the parenthetical in-text citation (Author page) and an HTML version with the italic container marked.

How to use this tool

1. Choose the source type.
2. Enter the authors as Family, Given names, one per line.
3. Add the title, the container (journal, website, newspaper, book or platform), volume, issue, date, pages and DOI or URL.
4. Optionally enter the page you quote for the in-text citation and the date you accessed an online source.

Formula

Author. “Title of Source.” Title of Container, Other contributors, Version, Number, Publisher, Publication date, Location. Accessed date.

Elements that do not apply are skipped, and each one ends with a comma except the last, which ends with a period. Two authors are written Family, Given, and Given Family; three or more become the first author plus "et al." Titles inside a container are in quotation marks; books, websites and other self-contained works are italic. Months are abbreviated (Jan., Sept.), page ranges over 99 keep two digits (112–14), and URLs lose https://. DOIs are written as https://doi.org/ links.

Example

Anne Goldman's article in The Georgia Review (volume 64, number 1, 2010, pages 69–88) becomes Goldman, Anne. “Questions of Transport: Reading Primo Levi Reading Dante.” The Georgia Review, vol. 64, no. 1, 2010, pp. 69–88. A quotation from page 75 is cited (Goldman 75) — no comma and no "p." in MLA.